Entangle vowels and a few consonants is one of the most simple and pure pleasures that you can have. Is such a simple and fun activity that I just want to smile while I’m writing this, how your ideas become this visual concepts (much more graphic concept if I ever write this blog in Chinese) that goes out to the world and you can decide if you want to share it or just cross it.

Writing this blog became a window to share what I have been doing, thinking or even what I have been pretending to do (as now I pretend that I am a philosopher), all these to anyone what decided to click in one of the many links I leave around the web. And the main objective was quite simple, to share with my friends what I am doing and how weird/strange are things here in Shanghai but, one way or another, now I have more strangers reading this blog than my friends based on what I have come to learn.. And to be honest, is a little bit weird haha. But I’m ok with that, I like to share these few stories because at the end of the day I like to be able to comeback to my old post and read how I use to think, what I use to hope or even better to see what I have accomplish.

This picture, at this day is the one I feel related the most, it was done here in Shanghai a few years ago. In a city as this its easy to feel lost, not only by the magnitude of the whole city but also this not so familiar language and not being able to see the sky always. Procedures, actions and ways to get things done are a little bit different and if you don’t learn to love the language then you don’t enjoy the cit as much. But I think this picture capture the way I feel now, the way I use to feel when I was only 3 or 4 in front of my NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). I was in new worlds that were a little bit different to the one I was use to, the languages were also different (English and Japanese) and learning to master the controls and the actions was quite frustrating (again, it was just a NES) but one way or another I manege to complete some games, even if I had to spend more hours gaining more EXP and buying more potions and elixiers. And here I am, I know it is could be easier just to reset everything and go back to a “comfort zone” but I’m not interested in an easy way out, I think this city and the people I got to know here are one in a lifetime experiences and I’m willing to spend all the potions I have collected, work my way around and be able to finish this level.

This post is for all those friends hat have been next to me when I needed to talk. Thanks for your support and all the kind words!